Atorvastatin ameliorates cerebral vasospasm and early brain injury after subarachnoid hemorrhage and inhibits caspase-dependent apoptosis pathway

BMC Neuroscience

Volumn 10, Issue , 2009, Pages

  Cheng, Gao ^a   Wei, Liu ^a   Zhi Dan, Sun ^a   Shi Guang, Zhao ^a   Xiang Zhen, Liu ^a  

^a HARBIN MEDICAL UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

APOPTOSIS INDUCING FACTOR; ATORVASTATIN; CASPASE; CASPASE 3; CASPASE 8; CYTOCHROME C; PROTEIN P53; HEPTANOIC ACID DERIVATIVE; MESSENGER RNA; NEUROPROTECTIVE AGENT; PYRROLE DERIVATIVE; WATER;

ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; BASILAR ARTERY; BLOOD BRAIN BARRIER; BRAIN CORTEX; BRAIN EDEMA; BRAIN NECROSIS; BRAIN VASOSPASM; BRAIN WATER; CONTROLLED STUDY; MALE; NEUROPROTECTION; NONHUMAN; RAT; SUBARACHNOID HEMORRHAGE; UPREGULATION; ANIMAL; APOPTOSIS; BRAIN; BRAIN INJURY; DNA FRAGMENTATION; DRUG EFFECT; METABOLISM; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; SPRAGUE DAWLEY RAT;

ANIMALS; APOPTOSIS; BLOOD-BRAIN BARRIER; BRAIN; BRAIN EDEMA; BRAIN INJURIES; CASPASES; DNA FRAGMENTATION; HEPTANOIC ACIDS; MALE; NEUROPROTECTIVE AGENTS; PYRROLES; RATS; RATS, SPRAGUE-DAWLEY; RNA, MESSENGER; SUBARACHNOID HEMORRHAGE; VASOSPASM, INTRACRANIAL; WATER;

EID: 62149115304     PISSN: None     EISSN: 14712202     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1471-2202-10-7     Document Type: Article

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